The Pure, Universal Consciousness, Pure Awareness, and a "Proper Perspective"

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The Pure, Universal Consciousness, 

Pure Awareness, 

and a

"Proper Perspective"

“I talk to you from the perspective of the universal consciousness.” 

---Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

It is the nature of humans who have been programmed, conditioned, etc. to resist even trying to understand facts which are contrary to their beliefs. They are far more likely to try to defend, and what they try to defend is the nonsense which they have been led to believe makes sense.

If persons were to try to understand a different perspective, then they would consider pointers in the quiet rather than trying to defend concepts and distortions in persons’ typically noisy way.

To declare that persons must “always have opinions and thoughts” reveals that at their core, they have no intention of trying to understand a set of teachings that would free them of the chaos in their minds which is generated by opinions and thoughts and ideas and misperceptions and delusions and concepts (a.k.a., “beliefs”).

Yet that is true-to-form among “the non-realized” who (a) think they know but who (b) do not know that they know not. Persons form rigid opinions about experiences which they have never actually had.

Talking without knowing what one is really talking about is the planet-wide standard now. Such talk takes place among “the non-realized” via the use of mind-language which, in turn, promotes mind-speak.

To understand that is to understand why Maharaj invited seekers to develop a different perspective and why the same has been done here since 1989.

The man who attacked his sister-in-law's nonsensical beliefs, but then accepted those beliefs (and then tried to defend the nonsense he spoke after attacking her for talking the same nonsense) was advised: “You have bought into nonsense and you are talking nonsense and that has been the case for all of the decades following your programming, conditioning, etc.

You said: ‘I tried turning it over in the past too, and it brought relief.’ Well, eating breakfast brings relief to morning hunger, but you are going to be hungry again by noon.

“Nothing can be considered to have been 'turned over' to anyone or anything or any God for the sake of relief when any so-called 'relief' is fleeting . . . only momentary. To abide as the natural state is to abide as that which is permanent. The option is either (a) to attach to the non-real, which is fleeting or to (b) realize fully and be done with the worry / relief cyclings once and for all.

“You have been invited to see that fear and anxiety and worry and escape have become your abnormal ‘norm.’ Then you were invited to see how all of the methods which you have tried, and which the sister-in-law has tried (and which you are now defending) have never given you anything close to a permanent solution and will never give you a permanent solution.

“Peace comes when the snake is seen to be a rope. As long as distortion and delusion perpetuate a belief that the rope is a scary snake—even after the light has been cast on the rope—then false beliefs will continue, and so will the fears which all delusional people experience when they think ropes are snakes.

“It is delusional to think that illusions and mirages—dreamed up by ignorant persons thousands of years ago and accepted as truth by ignorant persons in the present—can address relative issues, and delusional people cannot be at peace as long as they keep taking the rope to be a snake.

"Moreover, since you are quite intelligent, note that the ignorant persons in the present are not always devoid of intelligence. They have been made ignorant by having been taught that concepts which were rooted in ignorance are true.

“That sister-in-law’s ego-state is talking and she's fooling herself. So it is. But why let her or anyone else continue to fool you? The beliefs which you have operated under for your entire life were received from outside sources such as religion or spirituality and your parents and your wife’s relatives.

On this site, there is no suggestion at all that you should believe anything offered by way of the pointing and the pointing out here, so it can be asked objectively, 'Why believe them either?'

“The suggestion here is that you find what you can only find via the inner resource instead of those outer resources. Your IQ is higher than that of anyone else you know, yet your intelligence and your accumulated knowledge (a.k.a., “learned ignorance”) avail you nothing.

The potential to know truth is within, not without. If you would but stop defending ignorance which is verbalized via mind-language and mind-speak, you might be able to tap into the truth from within.

“Moreover, your arguments here will avail you nothing. Similarly, any counter arguments offered will avail you nothing, either. All that will avail you “something”—namely, an awareness of reality and Reality and Truth—can only come from within.

But the mind-speak of other persons and the mind-speak from your mouth are drowning out the inner guru which would speak to you if you could just be quiet and listen with even a modicum of wisdom.

“Why believe her words, or mine, rather than investigating that which you know within but refuse to tap into and acknowledge? There is only one permanent solution for the Sickness which ails you and humanity in general. How could anything permanent be found via the impermanent? Look elsewhere. Look within.

"The location of the solution has been pointed to, but you keep allowing self / ego / egotism to pull you back to the nonsense. Be done with it. Go the way of the reason and logic, not the way of ‘the nut’.” 

To be continued. 

Please enter into the silence of contemplation.

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Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "god," the "Son of god," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns.

THE EXPLANATION

If looked at as nouns, they point to illusions and are, therefore, a total waste of time to even discuss; if looked at as verbs which are resulting in certain sane but rare behaviors among humanity, then they are worthy of some attention during the relative existence.

Meaning? There are members of certain groups who say things such as "My concept of god in the past was of a weak god, an absentee god, A Santa Claus-type god, a mean, punishing, vindictive god, etc. Today, I am in close contact with a loving and caring god whom I worship and praise and glorify and give thanks to."

The reply to that usually goes like this: "If you are in contact with a god that wants to be worshipped and praised and glorified, then you're dealing with someone like yourself - a narcissist - and hanging out with narcissists will never bring an end to your narcissism (that narcissism evidenced by the fact that you think you are "godly").

Next, in the phrase 'loving and caring god,' any supposed god that truly had her or his act together would tell you that the totally irrelevant part of that phrase is 'god' and that the only part that is relevant is the "loving and caring" part.

"That is, a non-narcissistic their god / their goddess would say, "I care not an iota about being worshipped and praised and glorified by you or anyone else. How arrogant and insecure and needy would I have to be to want that? Forget the man-made, dreamed up noun 'god' and focus on the 'god as a verb' understanding and then go forth and let loving and caring be verbs - not adjectives - and let them generate the act of love and the act of caring and let those actions manifest through you." 

Yeshu'a (Jesus) and Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis were spot on:

"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and earth shall fade away."

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and hell are not geographic places

but are states of mind, nothing more than

concepts dreamed up by men."

--Pope John Paul II 

"There is no hell."

--Pope Francis, the current pope

in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari,

a writer used by the Pope to issue off the record

teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.

[That said, would that the popes who have shown the courage to reject a core concept of their dogma - namely, "hell" - would find the additional courage required to question the very existence of their institution in light of the centuries-long cover-up of their history of raping children and in light of the mental and emotional and psychological scarring of billions of their members past and present.

And that need for courage also applies as questions need to be asked about why so many other sky cults are still being supported and allowed to continue to exist as well. When certain types of programming and conditioning have been shown to blind the masses, they should end. Will they? Not likely. Why?

Because what the masses think and say and do is most influenced by the international crime families which hold sway over the masses as criminals conduct their planet-wide operations. What are the major international crime families and which are the most influential and have the largest memberships?

The Mafia / La Cosa Nostra; the Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion followers) whose Vatican Bank worked for decades with the Mafia while laundering mob earnings (for a 15% all-profit charge by the Bank); Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with over 1.2 billion followers) like the one I was raised in where the youth director molested and sexually assaulted young girls; big business which has long created environments in which people have been abused; powerful political bodies like the U.S. Congress, etc., etc., etc.)

With all of those crime families, neither the followers nor the leadership ever voluntarily step down or shut down their criminal activities. Be they gangs, organized crime families, religions, big business, politicians, etc., they all want control and they all want power and they all want money, and nothing internal will interfere with the driving forces at play.

The masses must demand that all those in charge must step down and their groups and institutions must shut down, and there's the real problem because the continuation of their crimes are enabled not as much by the people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the masses of people who - wanting some perceived "payoff" - remain involved with them and give them money and support them and aid and abet the continued existence of those criminal enterprises and thus facilitate the ability of church criminals and political criminals and other types of criminals to continue to commit their crimes.] 

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